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Rapid City Public Works Committee approves consent items, continues Item 3 to Sept. 10
Summary
At a public works committee meeting, members approved the consent calendar except for item 3 (continued to Sept. 10). The committee recorded a $107,400.42 savings on a Sunburst Drive change order, approved an $89,112 garage-door purchase under an energy grant, and authorized several bid advertisements and a transit agreement.
The Rapid City Public Works Committee approved most items on its consent calendar and postponed one item to its next meeting. Speaker 2, an unidentified staff member presenting public works items, said a final change order for a Sunburst Drive project by Simon Contractors showed “a decrease amount of $107,400.42,” which he described as “good savings to the city.”
Speaker 2 said the committee approved a request to use an Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grant to purchase facility upgrades, including garage doors, and identified the garage-door purchase amount as $89,112 of the approximately $135,000 grant. He also described an urban public transportation agreement with the State of South Dakota (referred to in the record as “section 53 0 7”) that would bring “about $35,000 and some change” to the city for the rapid transit system; the payment is part of a cost-share arrangement tied to Federal Transit Authority funding.
The committee authorized staff to advertise for bids on several street and infrastructure projects: a full reconstruction (Phase 6) on Fairmont Street in the Robbinsdale area focused partly on stormwater drainage; the city’s annual Miscellaneous Improvement Project (MIP) package covering minor improvements in multiple neighborhoods; and a pavement rehabilitation on Park Hill Drive that Speaker 2 said would mix full-depth replacement and patching to restore the roadway.
Speaker 1 asked whether the Park Hill Drive work would be an overlay or full replacement; Speaker 2 replied it would be a mix of both in different locations, resulting in “a solid surface when we’re done.” The committee also approved the solid-waste purchase of garbage containers via the OMNIA joint purchasing contract and reviewed a sidewalk variance for West River Electric’s substation at Haines Avenue and Country Road; Speaker 2 said Haines is an urban section slated for immediate sidewalk installation while Country Road, a rural section, will receive sidewalk when reconstructed in the future.
Committee members moved to approve consent items 2 through 10 while removing item 3 from the consent calendar. Item 3 was then moved and seconded for continuance to the public works committee meeting on September 10; that motion passed. The committee recessed after a motion to adjourn was seconded and approved.
Megan Gould was named as present to answer questions about transit funding but did not speak on the record in the transcript. The meeting record contains voice votes; individual roll-call tallies were not recorded in the transcript.
